The purpose of traits like "astitue"?

I have asked this question before and recieved no answer. I have searched hi and low for information with no success. KI could you please fill me in. For a second time I tried to see if training the pet for that extra 50 astitue gives the pet in intelligence. It did nothing to raise any of the talents. There are more things like astitue that raise the bar. My guess is they dont do anything either.

I have asked this question before and recieved no answer. I have searched hi and low for information with no success. KI could you please fill me in. For a second time I tried to see if training the pet for that extra 50 astitue gives the pet in intelligence. It did nothing to raise any of the talents. There are more things like astitue that raise the bar. My guess is they dont do anything either.

What is the purpose of these what appear to be useless talents?

The purpose of Astute and other 'Selfish' talents is so that your pet can have a chance at a Higher % on % based boosts, as well as reducing the cost to cheer on specific things more. Also, when you hatch, your Selfish talent effects the total of your pet's ability, thus raising the Price of the hatch and the chance to get a higher base stat on the next generation. Maximum stats on a newly hatched egg is 250.

For example if your pet has a rare talent that gives resist and an epic talent that gives resist, the epic one needs less agility, strength and power to raise its resist. All talents start with the lowest amount possible such as when you get the epic resist, it starts out giving you 1 resist. It can start out with more if your agility or strength or power is high enough so the resist could be 2. The higher rarity your talent is the less training your pet needs to raise its whatever. If you still dont understand what i am saying look at my example below:

If you hover over the stats of your pet in the pet's tab. You will see things like str increases damage, pip chance ect. ect.So the higher the strength of the pet the more skills like pain giver (adds to the damage of all attack spells)

Say my pet has 250 strength and knows pain giver. At this point I have filled the pet's strength bar. and pain giver boosts the damage of all my spells by 5%If my pet learns a selfish talent that boosts its maximum strength by 50, I can feed the pet more snacks to raise my pets strength to 300. At 300 strength pain giver boosts all my attack spells by 7%. Without that selfish talent I would never have been able to get that extra 2% added to the pain giver skill.

If 50 points could raise one of these skills higher than 2% it might actually be useful... As it is I don't think it can. There is also the problem that the selfish talent your pet learns may boost a stat that your other skills don't use...

example some pets with more strength and agility give more resist on spell proof and defy. my starfishes have about 225 of each they have 8 resist. sea dragon is about 250 each 10 resist imbetween 9 resist.